The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-07-14

two story brick mansion, occupied b
General Lee and his family; and at var
Gus points on the grounds are residence
r Tor tho other professors. The othe
principal buildings are farmhouse,
dairy, a barn, an engine-house, and th
stables for the stock, each of which j
entitled to some special description.
FARMING AND HORTICULTURE.
The College owns /, 7G2 acres of land
which IS divided into cultivated fields
pastures, orchards and vegetable oar
dens, and ornamental grounds. There
are, of the l, 762 acres, about GOO under
actual cultivation in different crops.
These 500 acres are divided into the
farm department and tho horticultural
department. The former includes the
cultivation of the usual plantation CROPS,
such as corn, cotton, peas, ETC. The lat
: ter includes all tho common vegetables
and fruits.
In the farm department the student is
familiarized with the planting, raising
and harvesting of the large commercial
crops, the actual care of the cattle on
the farm, the construction and use of
barns, stables, pens, and with the prac-
tlcal use OF all the improved agricultural
machinery now in the Southern States.
In the farm work is included q special
course i'll dairy husbandry, covering the
theory OF breeding stock, feeding for
milk, and OF making and shipping milk,
cream and butter. This is all reduced
to practice in what is called the creame-
ry, Tor tho purposes Of which there are
maintained on the farm 200 head of cat
tie, pure bred, grade and native. There
is also much attention paid to ensiIage,
the raising and curing of hay, clover,
etc, all of which, it should be borne in
mind, is done by ''tho boys" themselves.
In the horticultural department there
| are gardens in which okra, tomatoes.
cabbages, beans, Irish potatoes and
fruits OF oil kinds arc raised.
COURSE OF STUDY.
The course of study prescribed for the
students is made up of O biology, the
| most important branches of which are
fertlllzation and the relation of insects
and plants; (2) agriculture, including the
principles of stock-brceding and feeding,
drainage, cultivation, curing and mar
kotlng OF crops, Improvement Of soil and
manurjng; (3) horticulture, fruit and
vegetable culture, botany, silk culture,
etc; (D chemistry, rs applied to the
analysis of soils, plants, foods, water,
etc; (5) English, course of reading in
prose and poetry, logic and mental
science, with writton essays monthly
CO. mathematics, all the elementary
branches, up to analy tical geometry,
calculus and civil engineering.
THE MILITARY BRANCH.
There Is also the military organization
of the College, with General Lee at the
head of the military department.. and
Second Lieutenant II. G. Davis, United
States Army, as commandant of stu
der is. The students are all uniformed
III ccdet gray and are divided into five
companies Practically, tho discipline
of the College is military, and the rules
and regulations IN this respect are of the
usual military institute order All the
classes are taught company and battal-
ION drills, dress parade, guard duty, etc.
Tho senior and junior classes arc taught
target practice and service of the field
piece; III the junior year Upton's tactics
are taught, and in the senior and Junior
year there are lectures given on the
science and art of war.
The military equipment of the cadets
consists OF two 3-inch field pieces, 25O
rifles, cartridges, etc, all Of which is
furnished by the United States Govern
ment, with the exception of 100 rifles
furnished by the State.
LIFE OF THE STUDENTS.
The foregoing sketch of the work
done at the institution gives only dry
| abstract Of the essential details of the
life of the student. This life is, how
ever, one Of great variety and activity.
The government of the institution is all
Of republic within republic, and is
divided sharply between tho military
and agricultural features. In fact these
features are quite distinct, and in nowise
conflict with each other, the discipline
of the one securing discipline in the
other.
When the college boy here goes out
into the field he dofls his military trap
pings and puts on his old clothes, old
shoes, old hat, etc, Just as his father
docs on the homestead Iarm in any
county in Mississippi. In other words
he goes ont to work and he does not 90
in holiday attire.
In the morning, in the classroom or
on dress parade, he is as gorgeous as You
might desire. He has fine uniform
with plenty of brass buttons, all of which
he wears with the f.compacency of
having paid for them by honest labor
through long and dusty in summer or
wet and dreary days in winter.
In the afternoon you may meet him at
some place, any place, on the farm and
you will not know him. He wears a
slouch hat, very honest old clothes and
very honest old face. Maybe he is
wedding turnips or digging potatoes, or
you Will meet him out on some of the
green pastures driving the COWS, or if
you peep into the COW stables you see
him playing the milk maid. You will
meet him at any given point over all the
broad acres Of the farm, and in ninety
nine cases out Of a hundred he is doing
something that will help him to payslis
expenses at the College. And this he
does in fashion that deserves q special
chapter.
At night, after an afternoons work, he
goes home to study and in the morning
ne appears again a military chrysalis as
gaudy and as happy as on tho day before.
CLOSE OF TIE SESSION.
Just now the College is about to close
for the present year. The commence